A LUNAR ECLIPSE—

The Earth passed directly between the sun and moon Tuesday morning and produced a nifty eclipse. Since the Earth is much larger than the moon it took the shadow several hours to pass by—giving viewers an extended totality. Sort of.

I did this image at about 5:15 a.m. and went back outside at 5:50 to see if I could do anything photographically with the totally eclipsed moon. I couldn’t find it.

I did the photo through a hole in the trees but, in ½ hour celestial objects move 7.5 degrees in our view so, not only had the moon disappeared in the dark sky because of the eclipse, it had dropped below my west woods.

Additionally, the sky was beginning to brighten so an object as dark as an eclipsed moon likely became invisible at about that same time.

For you photo techhie types; the picture was shot at 1/250 sec., at f 6.3, ISO 400 with a 200 mm digital lens which is the 35 mm equivalent of about 320 mm.